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To celebrate its 13th anniversary, we invite you to take a look at our American Life Album Promo page. Here you can find the following Facts Press – tons of press articles from that time scanned from original magazines and newspapers Memorabilia – from our own collection including rare tickets, invites and more YouTube Playlist…

Nightclub and G-A-Y owner Jeremy Joseph has opened up about why he couldn’t enjoy Madonna’s performance at G-A-Y because he wanted it to be perfect for the Queen of Pop. CREDIT: Denis Makarenko / Bigstock Jeremy Joseph has spilled the beans about what goes on behind the scenes during one of his nights when a…

Thurs, May 19th 7:30 | Hollywood Theatre “That show was about freedom—freedom as an artist, freedom as a human being, freedom to fucking speak the truth.” —Jose Gutierrez Xtravaganza, dancer In 1991, the smash documentary Truth or Dare brought audiences behind the scenes of Madonna’s groundbreaking Blond Ambition tour, which courted controversy with the Vatican for…

This past weekend was the U.S. premiere of Strike A Pose, the moving new documentary about Madonna’s backup dancers from her “Blonde Ambition” tour, and their lives since. Getty All of the dancers from the film-except Gabriel Trupin who died of complications from AIDS in 1995-were in attendance at the premiere, along with directors Ester…

Photo: Courtesy of Strike a Pose For the cinephile navigating the dizzying lineup at the annual Tribeca Film Festival, it helps to narrow the scope—say, road movies (Detour and Folk Hero & Funny Guy); female directors (Mother and AWOL); or, in this case, thoughtful documentaries that touch on matters of health. The six standout picks…

ShareTweet80 In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, in honor of those pesky April showers, we’re looking at songs with “rain” in the title. Madonna, “Rain” (1992) For as much as early ’90s Madonna was all about the sex, she was perhaps even more about…

Photo: Linda Posnick In the 1991 movie Madonna: Truth or Dare, the titular superstar plays the role of her lifetime: herself. Filmed during her 1990 Blond Ambition tour when the then-31-year-old pop star was at her commercial peak, the Alek Keshishian-directed concert film/backstage documentary finds Madonna reveling in the cult of her personality. “She doesn’t…